Praiseworthy - 2024 Stella Prize WINNER by Alexis Wright
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the 2024 Stella Prize Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis Wright has become renowned. In a small town dominated by a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a gathering of the ...Show more
Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk by Dominic Gordon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour. What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds ...Show more
Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant families
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
An essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs's This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading, writing and living with the works of others. Taking her own experience of translating Roland Barthes's l ...Show more
W. E. H. Stanner: Selected Writings by W. E. H. Stanner
$36.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia's Indigenous people' -Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale', regarding the fate of First Nations people, for which he coined ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, ad ...Show more
People from Bloomington by Budi Darma
$31.00 AUD
Category: Classics
An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia's most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan ParamadithaA Penguin ClassicIn these seven stories of The People ...Show more
Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia by Samia Khatun
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonised by the British Empire to chart a history of South Asian d ...Show more
Aunts Up the Cross: Text Classics by Robin Dalton
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
50 years after its original publication, Aunts Up The Cross remains a perennial classic of Australian childhood. Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney's bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revol ...Show more
The Legend by Marie Bronsard; Sonia Alland (Translator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, Marie Bronsard's strikingly original memoir reweaves the history of her family--and the legend of her grandmother--leaving no stone unturned and no skeleton in the closet.Egocentric and domineering, Bronsard's grandmother was once a vibrant and sensual beauty. In Indochina at the end o ...Show more
Notes Of A Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin
$34.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award. An NYRB Classics Original Set in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a ...Show more